Michael Runyon

NEWS EDITOR

Those who use tobacco on the campus of SCSU are in for a change. Tobacco use will be lim-ited to designated areas as of the

signs going up around campus that

-sistant director of human resourc-es. “There will be areas that will

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The designated areas are step one of a two-step plan to ban all

that all the receptacles on cam-pus will be removed from where

designated use area. The ones that

and put in a designated tobacco use areas. There will also be sev-

-ing came into effect after SCSU

run a three-pronged approach to

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that it is a tobacco-free campus

out the nearest designated area

Staff Report

The reorganization of academic and pro-gram structure at SCSU has resulted in major

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and Spirit Groups.

one of the largest student-driven organizations

on campus.

past.

events. Under the new department all of the same areas will be covered.

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charge of organizing large inter-department

The Student Organizations area will be

training and providing resources for student organizations along with adviser support.

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with advertising for the SCSU sororities and fraternities.

The Spirit Group area will focus on sup-porting various spirit teams on campus includ-ing the cheer team and the dance team.

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Some programs and services will be mov-

Samantha South

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Tavern bar.

Nightclub and The Tavern bar

owner of the building that housed

Tavern have been a venue down-

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INSIDENews..............1-2

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SCSUs baseball

his childhood and aspirations

State government shuts down

Cowboy Jack’s to replace The Rox, Tavern

Staff Report

facilities deemed non-essential have been closed until the budget can be agreed upon.

The state government has shut

rejected the plan.The Republican-led legislature

vetoed it.

requires that the budget be bal-

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been deemed non-critical and are -

vices are closed:-

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conservation law enforcement and the care of hatcheries.

and has shut down.Child Care Services: Subsidized

deemed non-critical. There will be

The entire government is not

been deemed essential. These ser-vices include:

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be able to function throughout the

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sistance: These services are feder-

remain open.State prisons and law enforce-

ment agencies: Law enforcement has been deemed a critical asset and will

legislature will still receive funding for

is shut down.

remain open.

the shutdown is in effect. State em-

reached a bargain that will allow the -

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resolving their budgeting differences.

placing designated smoking areas around the campus area.

SCSU tobacco ban begins phase one

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Cowboy Jacks will replace The Rox in the fall.

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and mainly peer-enforced.There are policies and procedures students must follow.

Any other policy they violate, it would follow the same path. If it’s an employee, staff or faculty it will be reported to their supervisor.”

The designated areas will include all types of tobacco. Chewing tobacco will be allowed in designated areas only. There are twenty designated areas around buildings on campus.

Rabaan said, “I try to stay away from people who don’t smoke when I smoke. People don’t like secondhand smoke and it’s not good for them. I think they have to have the smoking area. It’s better than being able to smoke every-where.”

Students, faculty, staff and community members will all be prohibited from using tobacco in non-designated areas. Smoking will be allowed in personal vehicles parked on campus.

“We’re trying to make the signs as clear and obvious as possible because we have a lot of the general public visit-ing us,” Bongers said. “They aren’t getting the emails and brochures addressing the change in policy. I think that we try to focus around the athletic events. There should be extra signage where we have extra exposure to the general public.”

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into one large venue and restaurant downtown.

“We’ve been working on different areas for a long time,” said director of marketing for the After Midnight Group, Jesi Mosny. “When this opportunity came available, we decided to take it.”

According to the TAMG’s (The After Midnight Group) website, they are a multi-concept

constructs various restaurant, bar, and nightclub concepts. The After Midnight Group runs Cowboy Jack’s and other venues similar in theme.

Cowboy Jack’s has a saloon-type atmosphere, featuring a full menu, live music, and happy

Their menu consists of fresh rotisserie chicken, gourmet burgers, pot pies, soups, salads, steaks, chops, seafood, and specialty desserts.

family, so we serve a full menu, however at night we do have two happy hours,” Mosny said.Happy hour includes $2 select drinks, $2 select beers, and half-price select appetizers 3

p.m. to 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. until midnight seven days a week.For others who will be out late at night, Cowboy Jack’s also provides live music certain

nights during the week.“It’s usually country, classic rock, rock, that kind of feel,” said Mosny. “We kind of incor-

porate both.”-

Jack’s in Plymouth, Cowboy Slim is in Uptown, Cowboy Saloon is in Circle Pines, and one recently opened Cowboy Jack’s in Bloomington.

The new venue and restaurant will also need new staff as they start renovation for to the building.

As for when the new place will open, Mosny said sometime in the fall.“We are very excited to be coming to St. Cloud and think we will be a great addition,”

Mosny said. “We cater to everyone, whether you are there with your co-workers, your family, or hanging out with your friends in our bar area.”

 “We’ve been working on different areas for a long time,” said Director of Market-ing for the After Midnight Group, Jesi Mosny. “When this opportunity came available, we decided to take it.”

According to the TAMG’s (The After Midnight Group) website, they are a multi-concept

constructs various restaurant, bar, and nightclub concepts. The After Midnight Group runs Cowboy Jacks and other venues similar to this theme.

Cowboy Jacks is a saloon-type atmposhpere, featuring a full menu, live music, and happy

Their menu consists of fresh rotisserie chicken, gourmet burgers, pot pies, soups/salads, steaks, chops, seafood, and our specialty desserts.

family, so we serve a full menu, however at night we do have two happy hours a day,” Mosny said.

Happy hour includes $ 2 select drinks, $2 select beers, and ! price select appetizers 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. until midnight seven days a week.

For others who will be out late at night, Cowboy Jack also provides live music certain nights during the week.

“It’s usually country, classic rock, rock, that kind of feel,” said Mosny. “We kind of incor-porate both.”

-nesota and will be the third Cowboy Jacks, but the 5th Cowboy Property. There is a Cowboy

opened Cowboy Jacks in Bloomington.The new venue and restaurant will also need new staff as they start renovation for to the

building.Mosny and one of the other Cowboy Jacks managers will be doing open interviews Tues-

day, July 12th at Caribou Coffee (2423 W Division Street St Cloud MN) from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.As for when the new place will open, Mosny said sometime in the fall.“We are very excited to be coming to St Cloud and think we will be a great addition,”

Mosny said. “We cater to everyone, whether you are there with your co-workers, your family, or hanging out with your friends in our bar area.”

New staff positions have been given in order to support the new department’s new structure.

Jessica Ostman, the previous director of UPB, is now the director of campus involvement.

Beth Kunutson-Kolodzne, who once was in charge of Volunteer Connection, is the new associate director for civic engagement and campus programs.

The new assistant director for campus programs is Stuart Umberger. Previously, Umberger was the assistant director of fraternity/sorority programs and leadership programs in CSOLD.

Jess Lauritsen, the previous assistant director of student organizations for CSOLD, is now the associate director for UPB and student organizations.

The new assistant director for UPB and student orga-nizations is Janice Courtney, who held a similar position before the reorganization.

As the Department of Campus Involvement continues to develop, more changes will be seen at SCSU.

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MICHAEL RUNYON / NEWS EDITOR

The Rox/Tavern closed its doors to the public last Monday.

MICHAEL RUNYON / NEWS EDITOR

Tobacco use will be prohibited at certain areas in August.

In this age of homeopath-ic revival and psuedoscience, it has become more important than ever to focus on the ideas that brought us to our current levels of understanding about the world: rationality and skepticism.

Let me preface this by stating that I have no qualms with beliefs in the privacy of one’s own home or in the streets of cities. I believe that actions taken by people to do what they think is right is their right as a citizens of our great nation, however different from my beliefs they may be. It is important to recognize, however, how the actions of a few impact the lives of many, especially in the intercon-nected and media rich world we live in today.

Skepticism and rational-ity have recently been used as curse words, wielded against the people that think differ-ently than others when it

comes to religious beliefs,

Christians against the New Atheist movement that has sought to remove a perceived

government and politics of these United States, as well as around the world.

It is time for us to move away from the idea that skepticism shall only be rel-

the unwinnable war against religious belief, and towards the idea that we may all work together to remove the ideas that plague all of our people, no matter who may be watch-ing over us or not.

The hydras of pseudosci-ence and homeopathy run rich in our history as a species, mostly by charlatans of “natu-ral” remedies that use large words describing non-existent ideas primarily to those of little education or wealth.

Recently, there has been an outburst of these “natu-ral” remedies in the general public, even among those who are well educated.

While it may be true that these remedies are “natural” in some sense of the word, they are no more a remedy than drinking hot soup to heal a broken leg.

The worst and most un-desirable effect of this revival is the appearance of homeo-pathic remedies on pharmacy shelves, a place that was once

reserved for cures that had been tested and proven to

method.Homeopathy is the idea

that through dilution of a sol-vent in water, those who have fallen ill can be made well again by drinking the solution. While this idea may sound reasonable, through our lens of skepticism, we are able to see that it is in fact false and it is only the placebo effect that has taken hold.

For example, a medicine may be placed in water and reduced to less than ten per-cent ratio of medicine to wa-ter ratio, for the homeopath believes that the more diluted the substance, the more effec-tive the “remedy.”

common sense in every way.Take common drinking

water.Now imagine everything

that water has come into contact with ever since its introduction to the water cycle millions of years ago.

Wouldn’t illness have been wiped out by now due to the dilution ratio of the billions of substances in the water being so incredibly low?

Remembering my state-ment before of respecting beliefs until they encroach on the health of others, I proceed to my next point, and biggest beef with practitioners of alternative medicine such as

homeopathy; advising against the use of vaccinations.

Vaccinations for every in-dividual are an important part of how we live today, espe-cially due to our close quarters and social lifestyles. This is because of the herd immunity theory, or the idea that chains of infection can be broken by individuals in the community developing a resistance to the illness (what a vaccine does).

The alternative medicine and popular media crowds have been spreading untruths about vaccines like they lead to autism, allergies, multiple sclerosis or sudden infant death syndrome, all of which are false.

This has led to parents to being reluctant to getting their children vaccinated and has led to a surge in cases of measles, the number of cases rising to 152 cases across the USA just this year from 75 cases for the entire year of 2010.

If we are not careful, the spread of lies and pseudosci-ence can take over and demol-ish what we have become as

inquiry.In short, get yourself and

your children vaccinated, buy some real medicine and really think about what the people around you say.

Your life may depend on it.

Discrimination with new smoking policy

OpinionsUniversity Chronicle - Page 3Sunday, July 3, 2011

As August approaches, I cannot help but notice how many SCSU stu-dents smoke. These students are being discriminated against.

means: treatment or consideration of, or making a distinction in favor of or against, a person or thing based on the group, class, or category to which that person or thing belongs rather than on individual merit; the process by which two stimuli differing in some aspect are responded to differently; the quality or

act, practice, or an instance of dis-criminating categorically rather than individually.

Tobacco users are being catego-

non-tobacco users are being favored by restricting the use of tobacco on campus.

The University and the govern-ment are taking away individual rights of the American people.

I understand the harm smoking or chewing tobacco can have on a person but that is their prerogative, they know the risks and chose to take them.

Other people take risks with their lives on a daily basis and we don’t tell them they cannot do it. Skydiving, rock climbing, scuba diving and swimming in the ocean can all be dangerous and we do not outlaw these activities.

Some critics comment on the effect of second hand smoke.

First off, smoking outside is not go-ing to kill someone 5o feet away.

Second, if someone is bothered by the smoke in a certain area due to a person smoking the person can choose to leave, but the majority of the time they just sit there and complain about the situation without doing anything about it.

As for previous smoking legisla-tion such as not smoking with children in a vehicle, the government is once again telling parents how to raise their children.

If one is concerned about the health of children then the govern-ment should limit the amount of junk food parents allow their children to consume. They should create menus that parents must follow to provide a well-balanced diet for their children, create a schedule for physical activity and limit the amount of TV children watch.

But the government hasn’t done that because parents are “allowed” to

As for the current policy going to be in effect on the SCSU campus, the University is telling the thousands of students that call SCSU home (stu-dents that live on campus) that they are not allowed to smoke in or around their home.

The United States has always considered the man’s home his castle or a woman’s home her castle, hence why we have laws in effect for people to defend their homes. At the same time these students cannot use tobacco in or around their home but are able to defend it with deadly force?

This to me is discrimination. Smok-ers are becoming the most discrimi-nated group of people in the country today.

Summer stinks

Homeopathy is dangerous

Advertisers must choose message more carefully

The opinions expressed on the Opinions

page are not necessarily those of the col-

lege, university system or student body.

Kyra Loch

COLUMNIST

It is common knowledge that

greatly by advertising.While most advertisements just

try to promote their product on consumers, some can cause more damage.

Certain advertisements can be harmful and impressionable on people; this is why advertisers should think of the impact of their messages instead of just trying to encourage consumers to purchase their product.

Yoplait yogurt has recently agreed to pull one of their more

recent commercials that the National Eating Disorders Association claims promotes behaviors of an eating disorder.

In the commercial, a woman is at the fridge staring at a cheesecake. We hear her bargaining with herself over whether she can have a slice.

She is coming up with reasons and agreements in order to allow herself to eat the cheesecake, such as she has been “good” that day, or maybe if she eats a small slice and eats celery afterwards the calories will somehow cancel each other out.

Another woman walks up and

that happens to be sitting next to the

mentions the second one has lost weight, and guiltily grabs a yogurt as well.

While Yoplait has agreed to pull the ad, they have other commercials that are very similar that promote the same eating disorder habits.

There are at least two more commercials where the subject eating or choosing the “unhealthy” food is made to feel guilty and shamed into grabbing the yogurt instead, while the other subject boasts about losing weight.

Showing these thought patterns and behaviors that are usually as-sociated with eating disorders when advertising what is seemingly a “healthy” food product should not be

used in advertisements.By portraying a woman agoniz-

ing over a piece of cheesecake or other dessert and making excuses about eating it, the commercial shows women this is common behavior when they are trying to make healthy decisions.

It is not the way to promote healthy eating, especially when the product one is advertising is not that healthy.

Yogurt is a healthier option com-pared to most other snacks; however,

are added to it to make it taste like cheesecake and other desserts, it makes it more on the unhealthy side.

While trying to promote a

healthy snack that causes weight loss, they are actually promoting some-thing that is almost as unhealthy as the dessert they are comparing it to.

Advertisers are aware of how impressionable they can be on consumers, but they may be causing more harm then they think. They should be more careful with how they choose to promote their products.

Chris Bremseth

COLUMNIST

Christian Bursch

SPORTS & FITNESS EDITORSummer is often

thought of fondly by most Minnesotans, especially during the winter on those cold February mornings when it takes ten minutes to scrape the ice off the windows of the car.

Recently, however, day-dreams of pleasantly warm summer days have turned into a nightmare due to the heat wave in central Min-nesota last week.

The high tempera-tures, which reached the 90s for a few days, were a helpful reminder of why fall and winter are much better times of the year.

The following are all of the reasons summer is mostly just annoying and the second worst season (no one really likes spring, as it is barely a season and therefore automati-cally in last place).

A car becomes a very dangerous place during a hot summer day. Remember playing the hot lava game as a child, where you couldn’t touch the ground because it was made of lava? That just happened in your car; every metal, plastic, leather, pleather thing turns to hot lava.

Especially beware of the seat belt buckles, accidentally sitting on one is an unpleasant experience.

The steering wheel can get a little too hot to handle, so those gloves you have left in your back seat from winter may actually be useful. Oven mitts are a good alternative. Oven gloves are an even better alternative.

Another annoying thing that happens in summer that many ladies will be able to sympathize with is when the back of legs stick to a leather seat.

Wherever shorts, skirts, or dresses can be found, there too will be a thigh sticking to a restaurant booth seat.

Peeling a thigh off a seat usually isn’t too terrible unless you are unlucky enough to also be suffering from sunburn.

Sunburn is an evil instrument of self torture. It is easy to avoid by simply putting on some sunscreen, but the draw to get a tan often outweighs the logic of making a good decision.

Many times people turn a nice shade of lobster, but it should turn into a tan someday, right?

When sunburn strikes it makes you feel much warmer than you probably already were. This can heighten sweat-ing and not wanting to touch anyone, a few other things that are an issue in the summer.

Sweating is gross. There are many varieties of sweating, often depending on the area where the sweat derives from or the amount.

Someone once said, “Girls don’t sweat, they glisten.”That statement is false. That person has obviously not

been around a college dormitory in the summer that has no air conditioning.

Sweating can be smelly and wet, which aren’t exactly attractive qualities.

This leads me to my next point: it is not as nice to touch people during the summer.

In winter, nothing is better than getting cozy with a

close to another body just gets too hot sometimes and not in a good way.

There are several other things about summer that make it the worst season: bugs, bug bites, ice cream melting so fast that you can’t enjoy it, humidity, having to shave your legs all the time, and the list goes on.

But perhaps the most annoying thing about summer

government that can’t seem to get its act together.

Quote of the Day

“Nothing gold can stay.”

Robert Frost

Hannah Swift

ASSOCIATE EDITOR

Melanie Ovel

BOOK REVIEW

“Sisterhood Everlasting,” written by Ann Brashares, gives the Sisterhood of the Travel-

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the end of “Forever in Blue,” the fourth install-

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many of their belongings on the street to give

years after she and Brian moved to Australia

It is mentioned that Tibby has sent

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Sisterhood Everlasting brings forth the readers who have followed the series as they

-ning to end, with laughter, tears and familiar

Hannah Swift

ASSOCIATE EDITOR

Revolution 5, a Beatles tribute

were featured on the “Ed Sul-

sings, formed the band when they found that they shared a love for

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the four of them,” Pheonix said,

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their diverse fan base are the main

in our lives we thought about being

the band members had different

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Pheonix and the other members of Revolution 5 said they have dif-

“We all have a lot of differ-

idea of being in a Beatles tribute

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it in the short time that they were

Even though Revolution 5 has been together only for a few years, hey have been able to learn many

The Beatles tribute band is

Revolution 5 ‘gets back’ to The Beatles

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The members of Revolution 5 performed Beatles favorites at Pioneer Place last week.

Chris Bremseth

ALBUM REVIEW

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bass line with the distorted synth and the light

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use many instruments and the devotion to not

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REVIEWS

RATING:

Lead singer Grant Haake sang many of the Beatles’ hits.

The last installment in the ‘Travel-ing Pants’ series leaves the sisters as

women.

‘Sisterhood’ comes to an end

Digitalism’s latest album original yet true to genre

Digitalism experiements with the genre of European dance music.

RATING:

Christian Bursch

SPORTS & FITNESS EDITOR

Children with limited mobility are

Sports & FitnessUniversity Chronicle - Page 5 Sunday, July 3, 2011

Christian Bursch

SPORTS & FITNESS EDITOR

they better be able to tell the dif

Braxton Wiebusch from the Metros bats without assistance. Players are given a variety of options for assistance including batting help.

Kyle Shrupp from the Metros waits by

player makes it home and both teams win.

Husky baseball’s Bosch is a family man